On Monday, January 30, 2017, Alan Klitenic, the Director of Investor Relations for ChineseInvestors.com, Inc. (OTCQB: CIIX), was interviewed by NetworkNewsWire. Mr. Klitenic described the company, and the growing underserved market it has managed to successfully tap, some of the company’s achievements over the past year, and the aggressive goals it is already pursuing for 2017.

Salient points include the following:

Description – ChineseInvestors.com, Inc. is a unique financial media service that is tailored to the ethnic Chinese speaking population in the U.S. and Canada. Founded by long-time financial professional Warren Wang, it’s an American company, but with a strong Chinese orientation, allowing it to connect to the Chinese community with singular effectiveness. Over the years, the company has built its reputation in that community by providing valuable real-time market commentary and analysis on U.S. investor markets, through a range of subscription and other services. In conjunction with this, the company offers investor relations services to small cap and emerging growth organizations, exposing them to the company’s impressive but hard to reach client base in a way nobody else can. CIIX also offers consulting services to companies wishing to enter the public markets.

Achievements, 2016 – The growing significance of the company’s link to the Chinese-speaking community is seen by the increase in quarter-to-quarter revenues for the year. As part of a consistent effort to leverage this most important asset, the company took the initial steps to dovetail its unmatched market connections with one of the fastest growing consumer markets in history, the legal cannabis industry. Realizing that this was a major underserved market for its community, the company signed an agreement with a San Diego producer for the distribution of CBD oil products. These hemp oil derived products are non-toxic, non-addictive, and are legal in all 50 U.S. states, as well as in China, since they are not THC based.

Goals, 2017 – In light of the massive potential of crossing the North American and then worldwide Chinese speaking market with the explosive growth of legal cannabis-based products, the company has just launched its own ChineseCBDOil.com website, designed to sell CBD oil products not only to its existing client base in North America, but also now to the Chinese mainland, where nobody is yet selling these products. As part of this rapidly developing program, the company is now planning to set up its own operations in China for the production and sale of proprietary CBD oil products. CIIX even plans to develop a CBD oil based pharmaceutical to address the major problem of epilepsy in China, for which the company anticipates formal government approval within the next 2-4 years. The company is also in the final stages of developing its own consumer app that will give Chinese-speaking consumers location-based information relating to available retail outlets.

CIIX founder and CEO Warren Wang is quoted as saying that the overall CBD market is expected to pass $2.1 billion in consumer sales by 2020, so the launch of the company’s new online store, the first of its kind to provide CBD oil products to the Chinese speaking market, is timely.